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From: "Krumrey Heinz" <>
Subject: Süd West Africa 1913 adress book
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 19:01:27 +0100
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Hello everyone

I eventually had time to check the book and searched for the following
names:
Louwrens/Lourens, Nefdt, Maasdorp, van Helsingen, von Creytz

The only name I found was:

Bezirk Karibib: Schmiede und Wagenbauerei , Emil Lorenz
(District Karibib, (black)-smith's shop and waggon makery, Emil Lorenz)

(Lorenz is actually a German name and Louwrens could be South African)

Plesae note, that the adress book is from 1913 and in this time mainly
German farmers ore busines man lived in South West Africa. There are only a
few south African names (africaans families) listed. Most properly the
majority of the africaans speaking South African settled only after WW 1 in
South West Africa.

Best regards from Windhoek

Heinz Krumrey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Krumrey Heinz" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 5:33 PM
Subject: Süd West Africa 1913 adress book


> Hi Roy
>
> You wrote:
> >That sounds like a fascinating book there that you have found.
> >I am looking for some Louwrens or Lourens families who went to farm
there,
> but I cannot trace them. Do you perhaps >have any in the 1913 address
book?
>
> The "adress book" is not so easy to search, as the names are not in a
> alphabeticaly order, but listed according to the adresses. For example:
Farm
> Abenab, owner: XYZ, occupied by: ABC
>
> I have basicaly to check every entry in the book. Therefore I would like
to
> ask other people on the list if they have also to check a name, then I can
> do it in one go.
>
> You would not know in which area they farmed ? this would make the search
> more easy.
> Best regards
>
> Heinz Krumrey
>
>
>
>
>
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